The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-05-12
AMONG THE CHURCHES.

I AMONG THE CHURCHES.
6opns rAss Evsnts u Intersst in the ne.
li9lous world.
The largest psrishes In the Lutheran
Church ere to be found In Central Russia. One
1tgo souls.
In Protestant Church building at
eayrna three separate congregations worship
evvEy Sunday in as many different languages,
Afnenian. Turkish and Greek
Of the $1,000 inhabitants Of the Sa-
moan lslands It is stated that 1000 are church
members and 1900 are candidates for member
ehip. There are 200 native ministers.
The Rev. George Grenfell in the mis-
sion steamer Peace has traversed 3,400 miles
along the Congo river and its larger tributaries
visiting many tribes which had never seen
white man before.
1t 10 proposed to erect monument to
Robert Snow, the founder of the first Sunday
school I'm Brooklyn. The estimated cost will BE-
about $4,000. to be raised by subscriptions
from 6unday-school scholars.
There is growing feeling for church
unity In the German Reformed Church, accord
ing to the Christtan World. That paper thinks
the desire is for union with the Presbyterian
or Dutch Reformed Church, or both.
At st. John the Baptist's Church,
Liverpool, Eng, where alleged ritualistic prac-
tices are carried on, the vicar on Sunday twice
lighted the candles on the altar, and one of the
church wardens each time blew them out.
Father Hyacinthe, whose secession
from the Roman Catholic Church made such a
sensation in Paris some years ago, has not been
able to keep up his independent place ofhwor-
ship, and he delivered his Lenten lectures in the
American Church in Paris.
! A Protestant confederation has been
formed in Germany whose announced object
e to seek on the one hand to combat the grow
ing power Of the Roman Catholic Church, and
on the other to strengthen evangelical uri.y
among Protestant churches.
DR.. r. Kerr Eccles, writing in the English
Baptist Magazine of the condition of things &C.
clesiastical in this country, says: 1.-THE grand
factr in the American Christianity Of to-day
% feminine. Men may be professors, preachers
and deacons, but the activities of the member
ship Of the church at large are sustained by
women"
The latest device of the Socialists of
London for attracting public attention is to
march in procession to churches. When they
concentrated their forces on st. Paul's Cathe-
dral the Archdeacon Of London, who preached
on the occasion, gave them sermon that just
suited their needs on the text: 1.-THE rich and
the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker
Of them ALL"
Speaking of Cardinal Gibbons report
on the Knights of Labor the London Tablet
says: 1.-THE new democratic power needs only
to be Christianized, baptized and instructed.
The mission of the church is to effect this, and
as she has Christianized the old autocratlc
power so now she must do the same thing for
The democratic. The Tablet commends Cardl-
nal Gibbons report as an extremely important
and able document.
The suttee and juggernaut have beer
abolished in India, but the British government
still keeps its hands off the child marriages,
and the widows are still subject to contumely,
abuse and ostracism. The world is large one
and difficult to govern with equity. By and by
trade, and British wealth will cease to be
wrung from the debauchery of families caused
by this awful traffic.
Twenty-Five years of Christian effort
among the needy and deserving poor of New
many of these, in all parts of the city, are un-
able for want of means, experience, or on &C
,ount Of timidity, to secure their just and law
tul rights. For the benefit of such Mr.. Goss
aas opened a bureau in connection with the
Peoples Mission, where legal advice will be
yiven free Of charge, and where matters of
dispute of a civil character will be adjusted, or
Il need be, prosecuted.
The results of Protestant missionary
snterprise are summed up as follows: Eight
hundred and seventy thousand adults, converts
from among the heathen. These, with their
families and dependents, form Christian COM
munities scattered over almost every portion
Of the habtable globe, numbering in the ag-
gregate at least 2,8O0,000 souls. Two thousand
ave hundred Of these converts are ordained
ministers Of the gospel, placed over Christian
congregations; 1900 are employed as evangel-
lists to their heather fellow-countrymen, anda
large number are acting as voluntary agents in
preaching and teaching in Sunday schools and
engaged in other works of Christian usefulness.
The children of these converts, with a large
number Of the children Of the heathen, are re-
ceiving secular and religious instruction in day
schools.